Private Property

According to Say, all productive enterprises are created by individuals in society, not by the state. It is the responsibility of productive enterprise to support the continuity of families.

It is the business of legal violence to defend persons and their property from violent attack, from molestation or appropriation of their property without their consent.

Utilitarian economists, grounded on no ethical theory of property rights, can only fall back on defending whatever status quo may happen to exist.

His emphasis on property, capital, entrepreneurship, and above all, his commitment to human action and not government action, makes his long-forgotten work on economics worthy of a revival.

There is, in short national liberation (good) versus national "imperialism" over other peoples (bad). Once we get over simplistic individualism, this distinction should not be difficult to grasp.

The violator of his property is not the maverick company that pays the bribe, but the producer who violates his contract with the sponsor by accepting it.

Crusoe economics can aid greatly in solving such problems of political philosophy as the nature and role of liberty, property, and violence.

Will guilt or innocence in criminal trials increasingly hinge on broader desirable social justice outcomes?

The federal government, along with pharmaceutical, alcohol, and tobacco companies have spent money trying to put the legalization genie back in the prohibition bottle, so any argument or propaganda will suit their purposes.

Many landlords just received a crash course about how irrelevant their property rights are in Washington.